Quote: Archibald A. Hill (maybe)
"A speaker of the language should be able to pronounce correctly any sequence of letters that he may meet, even if they were previously unknown, and secondarily, to be able…
Worth reading: Mark Twain, “The Awful German Language”
This essay on the german language is definitely worth reading. Especially if one has ever taken a german class as I recently have. I found the text here. I made…
The sentence theory of truth bearers – problems with cognitively meaninglessness and logical implication
In a sentence theory of truth bearers, what it means to say that a sentence is cognitively meaningful is that it is true or false. To say that it is…
The principle of unique location
For all things, for all locations y, for all locations z and for all times t, that a thing is in location y at time t and that y is…
Infallible knowledge, the modal fallacy and modal collapse
The much mentioned the modal fallacy is not a fallacy (that is, is a valid inference rule) if one accepts an exotic view about modalities and necessities that is logically…
Dialogue – Kennethamy and Emil
Kennethamy in response to something about certainty: I did not say there was such a thing as objective certainty. I said objective certainty was what Descartes was aiming at, not…
Beliefs as secondary truth bearers in a pluralistic proposition theory
It is common to speak of true beliefs. As an example think of the JTB analyses of knowledge. JTB, that is, justified true belief. One could see “true belief” as…
Sentences as secondary truth bearers in a pluralistic proposition theory #2
I have had some additional thoughts about this after discussing it with fast here. First fast asks: “You said, "a sentence is true [if and only if] it expresses exactly…
A justification principle about logical implication
[Update 11/22/09] I note that Ben actually talked about this principle in a post on his blog, “if it’s reasonable to believe a bunch of premises, it’s also reasonable to…
The sentence theory of truth bearers – the problem of ambiguity #2
Ben Burgis over at (Blog&~Blog) has commented on my essay about the monist sentence theory of truth bearers. I have some comments on his comments. Aha! Let the comment wars…
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